Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
. . . the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
Have a heart that never hardens
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.